Phemanderac wrote on Nov 7
th, 2013 at 7:42am:
hmm a love-in was it? I did not see the entire show, so maybe I missed the love bits.
What I did notice though was that the panel basically consisted of a bunch of people who, arguably, have moved on from their hay day and now simply seek attention where ever it is afforded.
Did they offer anything provocative or thought provoking or considered? Not in the last half of program that I watched.
A perfect case in point was when the young girl form the audience asked the very clear question about the current generations lack of making protests - in effect she asked if it was learned behaviour or if they simply had it too comfortable to rock the boat. Not a single one of the four (apparently) esteemed panellists made any attempt to actually address what she said. They simply pushed their own agendas.
Germaine Greer went off on some tangent, no where near the actual question and, it appeared, had a lengthy moment of disconnect from her brain to her mouth. Sadly, she was once a good orator.
Peter Hitchen's made no attempt at an answer. He merely spent his time baiting the gay activist (don't know his name) on the panel and arrogantly suggesting that he "grew up" whereas all he really did was change teams.
The other two, well, the gay activist got caught up in the Hitchen's barbs, primarily to his own discredit and the other one appeared to simply tell the young woman how good she has it...
Simply put, what I saw was blatant disrespect and rudeness from these apparently once or currently revered minds.... None of them offered up much of use.
As to stacking the audience, I literally laughed when I read that.
I would suggest that those who truly believe that, simply watch the end of the program and take down the details and apply to be an audience member. Not too hard and then you can prove or disprove your theory once and for all.
This old ABC is biased chestnut is ridiculous and a furphy. Whilst it is demonstrable that some ABC faces are biased, that is not the entire ABC, in point of fact the follow on from the absurd ABC is bias and should be Shut Down, Privatised blah blah blah is akin to throwing out the baby with the bath water. The ABC simply shows both sides far more equitably than the privatised media sources many are so use to.
As to "paying" for it, well, private media gets paid for by you as well. Any product you purchase that pays for advertising in the tabloid garbage, you have paid for that as well.
Media standards need to be set up and applied to ALL forms of media. This idea of private vs public is just as much an attack on free speech as the idea of full and thorough Government regulation. I think the Government should regulate media ownership, and, given Australian media really does have a responsibility to the Australian public, then, that would be the best bench mark - Australian ownership. That is the system elsewhere after all.
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